June 10, 2004

Ray Charles, R.I.P.

A great American passed away this week. Tomorrow is truly a day of national mourning, for which all flags should fly at half-mast . . .

. . . for Ray Charles. Thank you Ray, for all the love, all the music.

Posted by brian at 03:28 PM | Comments (3)

On The Internet, Everybody Knows Your Dog


In stores now! Own one today! :-)


(Click for a hi-res picture)

It's out! Jesse's famous! What a great cover!

The Reader did a great job. Thanks to Jim, Heather, Frank, and the rest of the team.

(A note to journalists, freelancers, and writers everywhere: my personal experience with the Reader team has been totally positive from start to finish. Very professional, courteous, and responsive. Everything a writer could ask for.)

UPDATE --- One little error I noticed in the text of the print edition. On page 48 at the top left. For the blog entry on the Chinese fortune cookie (see here and scroll down a bit), the Reader folks typed in the text of the fortune, rather than including the actual photo (they included it on the cover). But when typing in the text, they inadvertently corrected the mistake that was in the actual fortune, rendering my little comment moot. Here again is the actual fortune cookie. Notice the text doesn't make any sense because of the extra "be":

Posted by brian at 10:45 AM | Comments (7)

Madstone Bites the Dust

Longtime readers will remember my Madstone Theaters critiques in my Nettle blog. One of the things I was concerned with is that Madstone wasn't doing a good job marketing itself or establishing a brand that made sense.

Well, well, well. It seems they've up and gone out of business. Very quietly, I might add. Apparently the only news outlet that covered Madstone's demise was the Salt Lake Tribune.

I found out about it because yesterday I got a mournful email from a former Madstone San Diego employee, thanking me for my Nettle critiques from 2002. I think what she was saying between the lines was, "they oughta have listened to you."

Posted by brian at 08:21 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
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